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productivity levels but also on long-term productivity growth rates in developing countries. Using a panel of Mexican manufacturing … industries, this paper examines several alternative mechanisms through which trade contributes positively to productivity levels … 1986. The results indicate that productivity growth is significantly correlated with the share of imported intermediate …
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present paper analyzes the impacts of total labor productivity and efficiency in Oman State. As Gulf States, they have … industries and trade, helped by long sea shores. Recent introduction of intermediate industries relative, labor productivity and …
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This study quantifies the impact of process and product innovation on employment growth in Bolivia by using microdata … from a survey on innovation conducted in Bolivia in 2016. Following the model of Harrison, Jaumandreu, Mairesse, and Peters …
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investigate the effect of union practices on productivity within the context of the reform. The findings show that (i) industry …In the early 1990's, the Argentine government promoted a framework for productivity-based negotiations between firms …-wide practices on displacement of workers and training have a negative impact on productivity; (ii) work practices do not appear to …
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This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005–2010, and using an instrumental variable strategy that exploits plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in...
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I analyse the effect of Brexit vote on UK manufacturing divisions using a synthetic control methodology. My results show that in the three years following the Brexit referendum, the UK total manufacturing sector's employment decreased by an average of 1.7% per quarter. When investigating the...
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structural problems that affect productivity in Bolivia. In addition, we evaluate TFP considering exporting firms, size of firms …This paper analyzes productivity levels, dispersion and growth in the Bolivian Manufacturing Sector during the Market … promote economic growth with fairness. We show that in contrast to what was expected, productivity in the manufacturing sector …
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